Women’s rights to land and other productive resources are essential to realizing their rights to equality and to an adequate standard of living, among many other human rights. Women’s secure access to...

Excellencies, distinguished panellists, ladies and gentlemen,   I am pleased to join you today for this panel discussion on measures needed to support women human rights defenders, who often face...

Excellencies, distinguished panellists, ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to join you today for this panel discussion on measures needed to support women human rights defenders, who often face unique...

This joint OHCHR-UN Women publication focuses on the question of accountability, understood from a human rights perspective. It aims to provide detailed guidance to support the adoption and effective...

16 December 2005 Over 50 experts are coming together in Cairo, Egypt, from 19 to 22 December 2005 to discuss ways and means of fully implementing, in six countries of Northern Africa, the...

Commission on Status of Women Forty-seventh Session (Resumed) 25 March 2003 14th Meeting (PM) The Commission on the Status of Women did not adopt its draft agreed conclusions on women’s human rights...

Commission on Status of Women Forty-seventh Session 14 March 2003 13th Meeting (PM) The Commission on the Status of Women today adopted by consensus its draft- agreed conclusions on one of the two...